This evening my daughter threw out the scrap/stale bread for the birds, which we do every day. We have a family of magpies who will take meat out of our hands, and for a while there we had 2 wild ducks visiting every evening. Tonight we had

First there were only a couple...Then they called in their mates!

this one looks like a bad photoshop job!! Seriously looks like he was pasted on and the colours look totally fake! :~P But look at him looking right at the camera! :~D So gorgeous!

We were able to get amazingly close. Myself and my 2 youngest were right under them and they didn't seem worried about us at all. They talked to us - looked us in the eye and whistled back when we whistled at them.

I love where we live; the wildlife is brilliant. (and they love our yard because it isn't a landscaped perfection like our neighbours'! ;~P)

They make the most adorable pets! We had one that used to visit us quite often. She was so cute - her name was Gertie. We get HEAPS here cause we have fruit trees. Figs (they love love LOVE the figs) and huge towering gums and lily-pilly plants. They're so funny. You walk outside and the lookout (they have a lookout) goes "EEEEEEEGH!! EEEEGH!" like, "DUDE! HUMAN! WATCH OUT!" So funny. If I walk really slowly and quietly they don't mind. I got some pretty sweet photos of them, actually. But anyway. Whee! Love these birds. :D

So cute! Live near Currumbin? Far North Coast of NSW is seriously teaming with lorikeets. My grandparents get 50 every evening in their backyard.Its crazy.All we have in Sydney is city birds and Cockatoo's *mumble*

Oh, we have a family of magpies and there's a new 'baby' - he's only just got his feathers and is all grey and downy still (so cute!)- and he kept approaching the lorikeets on the ground, hoping to share the bread, and they kept ganging up on him! They'd give him the evil eye and sort of lunge at him (never leaving the bread of course) and he'd back off. ;~P